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How's Your Sex Life?
Great Sex Matters When You're Trying to Conceive
By Jane Merrill
"And as his seed sprang in her, his soul sprang towards her too, in the creative act that is far more than procreative."
– D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
The idea that good sex makes likely conception is widespread in folklore, as is the idea that a woman potentially knows very soon after intercourse if she's conceived – much sooner than could be verified by objective tests.
Most people in the medical field are completely skeptical, but consider the perspective of an expert on sexual health at the top of his profession, Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, Harvard Medical School professor and author of The Viagra Myth (Jossey-Bass, 2003). "Biologically, the whole purpose of good sex as we know it is to make the chances of pregnancy increase," he says. "We know for a fact that women do not need to have an orgasm to become pregnant. However, when a man goes for semen analysis, if he obtains a semen sample during sex, it will be far better than in the lab washroom. This indicates clearly on the man's side that men do have considerably greater amounts of fluid ejaculated when they are more aroused."
Circumstantial evidence seems to point to the idea that you are more likely to get pregnant if you feel the sex. Ask your gynecologist if the quality of sex relates to conception and you'll probably hit a steel wall, as I did initially, researching this topic. A candid doctor acquaintance of mine who has delivered thousands of babies in my town said merely, "It would be nice." In the end, doctors talked to me about everything from timing, ovular temperature and menstrual cycles to egg meets sperm in the fallopian tubes.
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Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous on 08/27/2010 07:19PM
i have been gettin pregnant, I don't know if my problem would be my age. i'm 36 an my husband is 38's, help me please.
Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous on 08/20/2010 09:51AM
keep %$#@& folx...
Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous on 08/09/2010 08:41PM
we are married for almost 10 years and have been tring to conceive ever since but up on till now no success it has become so frustrating because I'm 30 now and he is 39 and it seems like it's never gonna happen, can someone please, please help us????
Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous on 08/04/2010 12:58AM
me and my husband try to have a baby weve beeb together for 5 years and we still hoping that e could have a baby can you help us
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Re: How's Your Sex Life? by anonymous on 08/28/2010 12:52AM
I got married last 2 years back . past 1 yr we are trying to get pregnant but still we are trying what is problem is he has less sperm count still its very active ... for me the ovary size is not enough to get pregnant .....I always pray god to get pregnant faster ....